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Beauty As I Rot
November 8, 2012
I've breathed your name
setting fire to this room just to keep you
"forget this world" you said
"with me you will see"
so I held your large hands
cut my soul upon the broken glass you brought me through
I let you tie this knot
across broken ribs
and you let me be the wanderer
as long as you held the power
I know what crawls behind your eyes at night
for it has lived within me for months
you took with you, a butterfly
caged within a jar
and you watched her silent beauty
as she would rot from a far
© Nina G., Nashville, TN
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